The United State Congress Reacted Late To The Ebola Crisis In Africa – Samaritan's Pulse

A Nigerian port health official uses a thermometer on a worker at Muhammed International Airport. (Sunday Alamba/AP)

On Thursday, we heard how a humanitarian organization, Samaritan’s Pulse pleaded for help for more than a month before the well-publicized infections of two Americans finally prompted a response from the U.S. Government.

Ken Isaacs, vice president of the North Carolina-based Christian missionary organization-Samaritan's Pulse told a congressional committee that, “in mid-June, I began speaking privately to U.S. Officials that the disease was spiraling out of control and more needed to be done immediately.” But nothing was done. “That the world would allow two relief agencies to shoulder this burden along with the overwhelmed Ministries of Health in these countries testifies to the lack of serious attention the epidemic was given.”

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Until this epidemic hit Nigeria, it was never taken serious, in fact, just the other day, CNN's Chief medical correspondent Dr, Sanjay Gupta was talking with the CDC about the level one Ebola alert and the guy pointed to the map of countries with the infection, then said after it hit Nigeria, the Alert was issued.

But should the U.S. Government have waited till some lives have been lost and possibly more infected before doing what they can do to contain the virus?